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MPR Poll Results and Methodology - Senate race

QUESTION: I am going to read a list of potential candidates for the 2008 election. Do you recognize the name and, if so, do you have a favorable, unfavorable, or neutral opinion of that person?

Option

Recognize favorable

Recognize unfavorable

Recognize neutral

Don't recognize

Norm Coleman

43%

25%

29%

3%

Al Franken

29%

32%

18%

21%

Mike Ciresi

18%

13%

34%

35%

QUESTION: If the 2008 election for Minnesota's U.S. Senate seat were held today, for whom would you vote if the choice were between Al Franken, the DFL candidate, and Norm Coleman, the Republican candidate?

Option

State

Men

Women

DFL

GOP

IND

Metro

Rest of state

Coleman

54%

57%

51%

28%

88%

49%

49%

61%

Franken

32%

31%

33%

57%

4%

33%

38%

24%

Undecided

14%

12%

16%

15%

8%

18%

13%

15%

QUESTION: If the 2008 election for Minnesota's U.S. Senate seat were held today, for whom would you vote if the choice were between Mike Ciresi, the DFL candidate, and Norm Coleman, the Republican candidate?

Option

State

Men

Women

DFL

GOP

IND

Metro

Rest of state

Coleman

52%

55%

49%

26%

85%

47%

49%

56%

Ciresi

29%

25%

33%

55%

2%

25%

33%

23%

Undecided

19%

20%

18%

19%

13%

28%

18%

21%

QUESTION: How would you rate the performance of Norm Coleman as Minnesota's U.S. senator?

Option

State

Men

Women

DFL

GOP

IND

Excellent

9%

10%

8%

1%

18%

8%

Good

39%

40%

38%

31%

52%

34%

Fair

32%

34%

30%

35%

26%

34%

Poor

18%

15%

21%

32%

1%

20%

Undecided

2%

14%

3%

1%

3%

4%

QUESTION: How would you rate the performance of Norm Coleman as Minnesota's U.S. senator?

Option

State

Men

Women

DFL

GOP

IND

Excellent

9%

10%

8%

1%

18%

8%

Good

39%

40%

38%

31%

52%

34%

Fair

32%

34%

30%

35%

26%

34%

Poor

18%

15%

21%

32%

1%

20%

Undecided

2%

14%

3%

1%

3%

4%

QUESTION: How would you rate the performance of Amy Klobuchar as Minnesota's U.S. senator?

Option

State

Men

Women

DFL

GOP

IND

Excellent

20%

16%

24%

32%

7%

18%

Good

36%

31%

41%

48%

25%

32%

Fair

20%

25%

15%

10%

29%

25%

Poor

9%

10%

8%

4%

16%

8%

Undecided

15%

18%

12%

6%

23%

17%

QUESTION: Do you approve or disapprove of the way Congress is handling its job?